The Board's Job

Most boards think they are managing an AI risk. They are missing the decision that will decide whether their company is still here in ten years. AI is not another technology to oversee. It is lowering the cost of coordination, the thing your company's structure was built to manage, and turning that structure from a fact of nature into a choice your board is making, whether it means to or not. Governing AI's risks is the floor, and most boards have built it. Governing whether the company actually changes is the ceiling, the job only the board can do. Your board has two AI jobs. It has almost certainly built only one. Drawing on twenty-five years spent on one question, what makes a company more valuable, The Board's Job is a direct, opinionated account of the choice AI now puts to every board, and a frame for making it while the future is still unclear. Is your board a follower of AI's development, or the force driving the change?